Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | God is no divine monster whose existence can be sounded out by the aerial equivalent of the sophisticated underwater sonar equipment used to test for the presence of Nessie . |
| 2 | This did not , however , stop the question of political marginality and the need to reform existing policies from being raised at all , as can be seen subsequently by the attempts after 1981 to introduce both locally and nationally measures which were meant to address some of the grievances of the rioters and to ensure that further disturbances did not occur . |
| 3 | Actually all the doubts just mentioned can be cleared up by the use of one word , though it is a word never used in The Lord of the Rings . |
| 4 | IT will be a great relief to Abi King at the Arts Theatre if the props she needs for a new play can be turned up by the public at large . |
| 5 | This clock can be turned on by the START signal , causing the motor to run at a stepping rate equal to the clock frequency , and turned off by the STOP signal , in which case the motor is halted . |
| 6 | Trees of a pendulous habit are for streams and riversides where their fallen leaves can be whisked away by the rains of autumn and winter . |
| 7 | Much can be discerned simply by the way the burial ground is laid out . |
| 8 | The answer to the first part of the question is that communication problems can be caused both by the sender and the receiver , but if you are frequently misinterpreted you may need to think about the message and the manner in which it is being transmitted . |
| 9 | Tension can be created either by the sponsor 's subtle , superior position of detachment : ‘ I am only here to describe the problems ; you are the ones who will have to face them ’ , or , quite differently , a hint of ‘ I know more than I am going to tell ’ , or its cruder version : ‘ I am doing a good salesman 's job and you are going to fall for it ’ . |
| 10 | The advantage of this technique is that , in subsequent processing , the whole prime data track can be handled sequentially by the software , and overflow records are picked up only when the prime track has been processed . |
| 11 | Yes , we 've all seen all the reports — distributed open systems end up costing downsizers more money than the mainframe ever did , that there are many applications that can be handled only by the mainframe , that the mainframe has a bright future if only IBM Corp can get over its present problems . |
| 12 | However , we suggested that this point can be met substantially by the traditional argument about economic policy making , that it is best to assign separate instruments to different targets . |
| 13 | The Minister will know that those targets can be met only by the air ambulance in my area . |
| 14 | However , a B II site at this junction can be ruled out by the very high chemical shift of the associated phosphate . |
| 15 | Heavy fatty deposits can be broken up by the use of caustic cleaners sometimes specially formulated and described as drain cleaners . |
| 16 | Nature has , of course , tremendous resilience in coping with abuse ; even great quantities of waste can be broken down by the bacteria in the water . |
| 17 | However , the cost differential is rapidly diminishing , and as some of these benefits can be obtained simply by the addition of a micro-computer to a spectrophotometer , the choice between spectrophotometer and interferometer is becoming more and more a matter for the individual spectroscopist . |
| 18 | ‘ Even if they have mortgage arrears they can be called up by the Public Carriage Office for questioning . |
| 19 | All these four reasons are subject to varying degrees of criticism : Unskilled manual jobs may well be done just as well , if not better , by the less educated ; resistance to change in employment can be affected more by the alternative job opportunities that are available than by levels of education ; advanced industrialisation has so atomised and de-skilled the production process that for many workers further or higher education is not necessary in their jobs , etc. , etc . |
| 20 | Similarly the pronouns I and you ( je and tu ) are personal because they can be defined only by the utterance in which they appear . |
| 21 | This attitude was reinforced by the second wave of technology which provided instrumentation , ways of sensing and recording data which gave more accurate and reliable data than that which can be detected directly by the human senses . |
| 22 | The pack says social workers should take responsibility for ensuring the forms are completed but they can be filled in by the person the child is living with . |
| 23 | This facility can be started/stopped only by the LIFESPAN Manager . |
| 24 | How that responsibility is best discharged can be decided only by the person concerned . |
| 25 | Evaluation data are obviously never value free ; but even subjective data such as student evaluation of courses can be recorded objectively , e.g. self-recorded written responses can be analysed by computer or an independent third party ; or subjectively , e.g. a request for comment from the class can be written up by the course tutor three weeks later . |
| 26 | The notice can be given either by the Central Authority or , to save time , directly by the competent authority . |
| 27 | This can be explained largely by the industrial and occupational distribution of the jobs which they have and by the overlap between part-time working and temporary working . |
| 28 | This correlation , however , can be explained simply by the presence of absence of H pylori in their patient group and does not provide evidence of a causal association between H pylori ammonia production and gastritis . |
| 29 | This growth of manufacturing employment can be explained partly by the quality of rural environment and partly by the changing structure of manufacturing . |
| 30 | Secondly , we need to demand tenants ' control over their housing in order that decisions can be made democratically by the people who occupy the council property and not others . |